Jeff Greene

Opinion | Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake They should teach kids to have agency over the technology, not just how to use it.

“Kids don’t need to learn prompt engineering or proficiency with a never-ending menu of commercial AI tools. They need a holistic understanding of AI — not only what it can do in the moment, but also how it works and how it affects learning.” (1/2) wapo.st/3P8SyEX

Encouraging findings that teacher-led sourcing and corroboration strategy instruction can enhance 7th and 8th grade students' sourcing ability and metastrategic knowledge about sourcing when working with text-based online material. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Encouraging findings that teacher-led sourcing and corroboration strategy instruction can enhance 7th and 8th grade students' sourcing ability and metastrategic knowledge about sourcing when working with text-based online material. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

I agree with the focus on teaching students how AI works and gaining agency with it, but I wish these articles would differentiate #GenAI from machine learning and other data science techniques. They are meaningfully different. (2/2)

Opinion | Schools are teaching AI — and making a massive mistake They should teach kids to have agency over the technology, not just how to use it.

“Kids don’t need to learn prompt engineering or proficiency with a never-ending menu of commercial AI tools. They need a holistic understanding of AI — not only what it can do in the moment, but also how it works and how it affects learning.” (1/2) wapo.st/3P8SyEX

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in JAMA Pediatrics titled: "Digital Media Use and Child Health and Development A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis."

Yup: "Promoting healthier digital engagement will require coordinated efforts across ecological levels, including family practices (eg, coviewing media), school-based digital literacy, regulatory oversight of industry, and..." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/2) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Student-Success Efforts Can Pay Off on the Job Market, Study Finds Interventions to improve graduation rates at Georgia State University also helped students in their careers.

I'd love to see more institutions trying new ways to support student success and then tracking effects over time, as Georgia State University has done.

The Danger of Silence When Academic Freedom Is Under Threat Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote?

I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series

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"...attention to cultural values and the evolving platforms. Future research should also prioritize precise, ecologically valid measurement of digital media engagement..." (2/2)

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in JAMA Pediatrics titled: "Digital Media Use and Child Health and Development A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis."

Yup: "Promoting healthier digital engagement will require coordinated efforts across ecological levels, including family practices (eg, coviewing media), school-based digital literacy, regulatory oversight of industry, and..." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky (1/2) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It is important to understand whether and how students regulate their motivation, using dynamic, high-volume data. @yekim.bsky.social et al. found motivation regulation strategies declined over time and were more focused on performance and behavior than value. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Do the Thing The Malcolm Gladwell version of the 10,000-Hour Rule is a myth, but the underlying idea is obviously true. You get better at things by doing them, so do the things you want to get better at. If you want to be a better reader, read. If you want to be a better writer, write. If you want to be a better public speaker, speak in public. A few corollaries are less obvious. The first is the sports aphorism to practice like you play. If you spend your time doing something that is somewhat but not really like the skill you want to develop, you will end up with that and not with what you wanted. If you write small, incremental papers because anything more ambitious feels like too much of a risk, you will only get good at writing small, incremental papers. If you take shortcuts and read in a hurry, you will get good at taking shortcuts and reading in a hurry. You have to do the thing itself. The second is to embrace failure. Don’t expect to be good when you start doing something new. Do it anyway. Think of yourself as a beginning musician playing notes to see how they sound together, or a beginning artist mixing paints to see what colors result. Create things purely for yourself. Fail fast and fail often. Love your mistakes, and learn from them. Make a mess, clean it up! The only way out is through.

I can write good abstracts not because I have a natural talent for it but because I have spent twenty years consciously practicing it.

The only way to get good at something is to keep working through the part where you're not good at it … yet.

cf. james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...

The Real Reason You're Not Using AI Well On AI adoption among knowledge workers

Forgive me for seeing self-regulation in everything, but this post really does emphasize how managing AI agents requires strong self- and other-regulation skills. Delegation, leadership, etc. all require knowledge and skill to help oneself and others effectively regulate toward desired goals.

It is important to understand whether and how students regulate their motivation, using dynamic, high-volume data. @yekim.bsky.social et al. found motivation regulation strategies declined over time and were more focused on performance and behavior than value. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Opinion | Your social media ‘addiction’ is overrated It is healthier and more accurate not to pathologize our habits.

I do think how we talk about things matters. We can frame social media problems in ways that help people feel in control while also acknowledging some people need help. And we can pass legislation that holds social media companies to standards and account.
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This was really helpful.

How do students regulate their motivation across time? 🤔
We followed students week by week to examine planned motivational regulation strategies and which ones matter for achievement. We also show how these strategies are interconnected, with some acting as catalysts for others over time.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

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On the Goals of Epistemic Education: Promoting Apt Epistemic Performance Recent years have seen a surge in educational efforts to foster the development of learners’ epistemologies. Our 1st aim is to problematize some current assumptions about the goals of epistemic edu...

Are you asking about paper re: epistemic cognition? If so, I think a nice place to start is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I like @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's work a lot and he's really pushing how to prompt LLMs to produce better output. I do worry about LLMs' ability to search academic literature due to limited access to articles, though. In my experience, it returns limited sets of resources.

a man in a helmet is standing in front of a sign that says this is the way ALT: a man in a helmet is standing in front of a sign that says this is the way

Great point. I wish more people thought of GenAI as a way to test/challenge their thinking, rather than replace it.

Agreed. Sadly, I'm seeing more and more "how GenAI can make your research workflow easier" and I'm just not convinced it's reliable enough for many/most parts of that workflow.

Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

I understand the publish-or-perish pressure. But the reputational costs of including a fake citation are just too high. Why use unreliable #GenAI to generate or format ref lists when there are good options out there for easily inserting citations and refs, like Zotero?

Ah gotcha, thanks.

We definitely need more independent analysis, for sure. I’d like greater visibility into usage data to inform laws about GenAI use. And small note: the report was written by Anthropic not OpenAI.

Picture of cover of the Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction published by Routledge.

Excited (and grateful!) to have written a chapter on Learning to Monitor and Self-Regulate Learning in the latest edition of this super-helpful Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction, with @christyhb.bsky.social and @mattbernacki.bsky.social!

“…: AI’s economic impact could be real but constrained by reliability limits the industry hasn’t solved, by human and organizational barriers the industry doesn’t want to acknowledge, and by theoretical baselines that have always been more aspirational than measurement.” (2/2)

Anthropic’s New AI Report Accidentally Reveals an Industry-Sized Weak Spot The big gap between what AI "can do" and what people actually use it for

“The standard story is that massive labor market disruption is coming…and we need to prepare for it. The counter-story, the one I’m defending—which this data also supports, that’s a crucial detail—is more complicated…” (1/2)

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition" titled "Deliberate Memory Strategy Development: The Interplay of Children’s Self-Regulated Learning Abilities and Teachers’ Cognitive Processing Language."

Important study suggesting a link between teachers' use of language rich in strategy suggestions, metacognitive references, and discussion of memory and students' better self-regulated learning behavior growth across first and second grade. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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The End of Independent Thought? Podcast Episode · Authenticating Intelligence Podcast with Stephen Aguilar · March 3 · 44m

Really insightful podcast with @stephenaguilar.com and @galesinatra.bsky.social. Good discussion of how #GenAI can produce conceptual change and the identity and self-perception factors that significantly drive that change (or lack thereof).